Friday (10-12-2018) I went for an eye examination because I am breaking up with the “readers” I have worn for 15 years.
Looked like a goofball wearing those $6 throwaways from the Dollar Store.
Why did I tolerate that for so long?
Sometime around 2003, I had Lasik surgery, and about a week later I started carrying readers.
A few months later I started using the strap around my neck to hold the readers so I wouldn’t have to fumble for them in my pocket or wonder where I left them.
I have been looking goofy with those around my neck ever since.
Just the other day, my youngest son was giving me some pointers on grooming a beard, and he commented mine may be getting roughed up on the sides because of the strap holding the readers.
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Those readers were more obnoxious than me slapping the table throughout the interview.
Ray! Ray! Ray! Toss the READERS! OMG!!
At least I wasn’t “wind sucking.”
Point is… while getting the exam, the doctor showed me how I probably should have had a prescription 14 years ago.
But you know what?
I was content in thinking I would never need prescription glasses again, so I “blindly” wore those ugly things and always had a spare pair of $6 readers in the glove box or locker at work.
In fact, the last straps I bought were a bulk supply of 36.
Why did I accept this insanity for so long?
Well, yesterday I decided as soon as I completed my run of 13.13 miles, (new PR!)
(yeah, I’m bragging)
that I would drive to Fort Worth and get prescription glasses.
I giggled like a little child seeing correctly for the first time after all these years.
I wonder what are the other areas where I continue to enslave myself with misinformed thoughts, or “half-truths”?
I am so careful to not consume newspapers, network news shows (Newspeak!), or popular culture. I have not watched the local “news” for years… it is all CRAP!
Yet I still find myself a slave to thoughts and beliefs that are not true nor healthy on many levels.
I mean, it has not been that long since I believed eating a Snickers candy bar and having a Diet Coke was a way to “get protein” and be healthy at the same time…
Really.
(Insert facepalm here.)
My desire is to seek truth, and bask in the confidence that I am not dwelling in lies, deceptions, and half-truths.
I want to SEE TRUTH correctly.
Looks like when I pick up the new glasses this afternoon, at least I can see this physical world much better than it has been seen for the last 15 years.
Now, if I can just keep a “corrected” view of everything else, that will be a good thing!
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